Sentence examples for firm mandate from inspiring English sources

But current Vatican policy, updated last year, offers merely a nonbinding advisory — not a firm mandate — that diocesan officials should report crimes to police.

In a statement released after a laborious process where the IPCC report was trawled over line by line by 110 nations, the UN body said governments had been handed a "firm mandate" to act on climate change.

In some cases, without a firm mandate, companies will say it costs too much and won't do it.

With a firm mandate to facilitate inbound foreign direct investment, the team provides a plethora of support to the ecosystem.

Temple's departure destabilised the government, and three months later the government lost its majority and Parliament was dissolved; the subsequent election gave Pitt a firm mandate.

The agency's proposal, advanced in a 3-to-1 vote, spells out new requirements for such firms, mandating they file a new electronic registration document, the Form SBSE.

Include financial firms, mandated to maintain AAA by regulators, and still only half of U.S. issues make investment grade.

They hired a public relations firm that mandated modernization, designing a (short-lived) corporate-looking logo.

She cites the example of a consulting firm that mandated that people stay out of the office on weekends, only to discover that they were working secretly from home.

That is because the law, seeking to protect the reputations of accountants who might be wrongly accused, and of accounting firms, mandates extensive secrecy.

A military force effectively unaccountable to the people tears at the very fabric of the Constitution, which is at pains to mandate firm and complete control over the military by Congress, acting in the people's name.